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If you have excessive frown lines and forehead wrinkling, people may comment that you look angry. Softening of excess expression can improve your appearance. Frown lines, wrinkled forehead and crows feet lines can all be improved by the careful injection of carefully diluted Botulinum toxin (BOTOX) into the overactive muscles which are responsible for the wrinkles. Botulinum Toxin is a chemical agent produced by a bacteria (clostridia Botulinum). In nature it is considered to be a powerful poison, because of its ability to cause muscular paralysis. Once purified and quantified this agent has become useful to the medical profession to create weakness of over-active muscles. Botox has been approved by the FDA to create local weakness (partial paralysis) of the frequently over-active muscles, which cause frowning, forehead wrinkling, and crows’ feet. The result is aesthetic improvement. Carefully measured increments of diluted purified Botulinum toxin are injected into specific muscle bundles to improve the patient’s appearance by reducing or eliminating the patient’s ability to wrinkle or frown. Without the muscular activity the wrinkles tend to fade until the muscles regain their tone. This period can vary from 3-4 months. |
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